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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plan does Jim hatch in Chapter XXIV?
(a) To kill Silver
(b) To return home unharmed
(c) To find the treasure for himself
(d) To overtake and board the Hispaniola

2. Who does Trelawney try to shoot in Chapter XVII?
(a) Ben
(b) Abraham
(c) Silver
(d) Israel

3. Who initiates the battle in Chapter XXI?
(a) Smollett
(b) Trelawney
(c) Silver
(d) Jim

4. Where does Jim realize he has drifted in Chapter XXIII?
(a) To the other side of the island
(b) To an eerie cave
(c) Near the pirates’ campfire on shore
(d) Out to sea

5. What does Jim hear at the end of Chapter XXIV?
(a) The coracle being destroyed by the Hispaniola
(b) Cannon fire
(c) A brawl
(d) Drunken singing

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jim refuse to run from the pirates in Chapter XXX?

2. Where does Jim head in Chapter XXIV?

3. Why is the boat at the beginning of Chapter XVII hard to maneuver?

4. How do the men get ashore at the end of Chapter XVII?

5. What does Jim dream about at the end of Chapter XXIII?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the pirates not notice that Jim cuts the anchor rope on the Hispaniola in Chapter XXIII?

2. Why does Jim take the coracle to the Hispaniola in Chapter XXIII?

3. Why is the boat hard to maneuver in Chapter XVII?

4. Why do the sailors say Tom has nothing to fear in the afterlife?

5. Why is Ben sure the honest sailors are in the stockade in Chapter XIX?

6. What do the pirates’ voices on the Hispaniola in Chapter XIX suggest to Jim?

7. What does Jim ask Israel Hands to do in Chapter XXV?

8. Why does Livesey go walking in the woods in Chapter XXII?

9. 1Who does Jim find on the deck of the Hispaniola in Chapter XXV?

10. What does Jim go looking for in Chapter XXII?

(see the answer keys)

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